The Tick

📊 Series Specifications

Network FOX
Episode Runtime ~22 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 9
Original Language EN
Creator Ben Edlund

The Tick (2001)

Created by Ben Edlund
⭐ 3.6 / 5 (114 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 9 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, a mysterious blue avenger teams up with an odd group of superheroes to fight crime.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Pilot

The Tick moves to the City and meets superhero wannabe Arthur, who helps battle an archival Soviet robot programmed to kill Jimmy Carter.

E2 The Funeral

A superhero dies on a book tour while in the, um, care of Captain Liberty, who initiates a coverup, with Batmanuel playing impostor, while Arthur and the Tick deal with the body.

E3 Couples

A crimefighting duo's teamwork impresses the Tick, but Arthur detects an underlying tension between the pair.

E4 The License

Tick's inability to account for his past prompts a search for his identity; Captain Liberty dates a man who thinks she's a civilian.

E5 Arthur Needs Space

The Tick assumes he's invited along when Arthur has a date with the girl he worshipped in high school; old nude photos haunt Captain Liberty, who faces a disciplinary hearing.

E6 The Big Leagues

The all-male League of Superheroes invites Tick and Arthur to join, prompting Captain Liberty to sue for discrimination.

E7 The Tick vs. Justice

Tick is jailed for contempt after testifying against a supervillain, who counsels his guard Captain Liberty on her love life.

E8 Arthur, Interrupted

Arthur's mom and sister hire a deprogrammer after he tells them of his choice to be a superhero and his partnership with Tick.

E9 The Terror

Irked by Tick's enthusiasm, Liberty baits him into fighting an archvillain, who happens to be bedridden and 112 years old.